•Minnesota marriage lawsuit moves forward. Even as voters prep for the polls to deny marriage equality in the state’s constitution, an appeals court sent the case of three gay couples against the state’s existing gay marriage ban back to the judge that threw it out.

•Washington anti-discrimination law not retroactive. The state Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that lesbian University of Washington employee Debra Loeffelholz is not entitled to sue for a hostile anti-gay work environment over incidents that began in 2003. The ruling states that until 2006, the harassment “was merely reprehensible, not unlawful.”

•Mom who wanted to raise kid as transgender loses custody. The mom won sole custody from her ex husband of their infant daughter in 2006. In 2010 when the child was 5, the mom announced that the child was trans and would be raised as a boy. A court backed the dad’s assertion of a misdiagnosis and restored shared custody.